Correspondence, 1827, Hope End, England, with I. Commeline, Jr., Cowley, England.

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Correspondence, 1827, Hope End, England, with I. Commeline, Jr., Cowley, England.

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[1] 1827, March 2, I. Commeline, Jr. to Miss Barrett [3 p.].--Sends her Mr. Price's lengthy correspondence on "the prosodical question." [2] 1827, May 7, Elizabeth Barrett Browning to I. Commeline, Jr. [6 p.]. Believed to be a copy made by Miss Barrett of the letter sent.--Discusses prosody, metre, dithyrambs, scansion and their uses. [3] 1827, June, I. Commeline, Jr., to Miss Barrett [14 p.]--Discusses and enlarges upon their argument on the Greek and English principles of meter, emphasizing the questions of time, quantity and accent. [4] 1827, December 1, I. Commeline, Jr. to Miss Barrett [8 p.].--Argues that Mr. Price's theory "vis: that length is conferred by Emphasis" in poetic meter, is untenable.

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Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning was an English poet and translator. Born on March 6, 1806, Barrett Browning became proficient in Greek, Latin, French, and other European languages. At the age of eleven she wrote a verse "epic" in four books of rhyming couplets, "The Battle of Marathon," which was privately printed in 1820 at her father's expense. She went on to write such works as "An essay on mind," "Sonnets from the Portuguese," and "Aurora Leigh." In September of 1846, she secretly marr...